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Or what do you provide for him, if your way should be immaculate?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Will he reprove you and take you to judgment for being afraid,<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>and not because of your many evil deeds and your infinite unfairness?<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For you have taken away the collateral of your brothers without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>You have not given water to the weary; you have taken bread away from the hungry.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>By the strength of your arm, you took possession of the land, and you retain it by being the strongest.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You have sent widows away empty, and you have crushed the shoulders of orphans.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Because of this, you are surrounded by traps, and unexpected fears will disturb you.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the on-rush of overflowing waters?<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And you say: “Well, what does God know?” and, “He judges, as if through a fog,”<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>and, “The clouds are his hiding-place,” and, “He does not examine us closely,” and, “He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens.”<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They said to God, “Withdraw from us,” and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>So, repose yourself with him and be at peace, and, in this way, you will have the best fruits.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Accept the law from his mouth, and place his words in your heart.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If you will return to the Almighty, you will be rebuilt, and you will put sinfulness far from your tabernacle.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>He will give you stone in place of dirt, and torrents of gold in place of stone.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the Almighty will be against your enemies, and silver will be gathered together for you.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then will you flock together in delight over the Almighty, and you will lift up your face to God.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>You will plead with him, and he will listen to you, and you will pay your vows.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You will decide on something, and it will come to you, and the light will shine in your ways.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>For he who had been humbled, will be in glory; and he who will lower his eyes, will be the one saved.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The innocent will be saved, and he will be saved with purity in his hands.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Catholic Public Domain Version<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 23" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>